vmware
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VMware
VMware vSphere Platinum and vSphere 6.7 Update 1 Released New Features
Update The Download links for vSphere 6.7 Update 1 have been posted*** One of the major news items coming out of VMWorld and no doubt the first of many to come is the introduction of vSphere Platinum and vSphere 6.7…
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vSphere Replication
Installing and Configuring VMware vSphere Replication 8.1 in vSphere 6.7
A crucial part of any disaster recovery is making sure production resources are able to be brought back online as quickly as possible. If you lose an entire site, you have to have a way to bring production virtual machines…
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Security
New Intel Vulnerability Foreshadow L1 Terminal Fault VMware Affected
Yet another security vulnerability has been discovered that is based on the Spectre and Meltdown attacks found in Intel processors. The new exploit is called Foreshadow and exploits Intel’s SGX technology which is ironically designed to protect sensitive data such…
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VMware
VMware vSphere ESXi Storage Performance Troubleshooting
Recently, I was troubleshooting an issue with a production VMware vSphere cluster that was presenting with severe performance issues across the board. After triaging the symptoms of the performance issue it pointed to storage as being the culprit for the…
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Hyper-V
VMware vs Hyper-V Nested Virtualization
Nested virtualization provides tremendous value for virtualization administrators whether running in VMware or now with Hyper-V environments running Windows Server 2016 as base for the Hyper-V role. Nested virtualization brings to the table many benefits including hypervisor hosted containers, dev/test…
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Backup Software
Vembu BDR Suite Multiple Recovery Options for Disaster Recovery
There is perhaps nothing that makes an IT administrator’s skin crawl like the words – disaster recovery. It is one of those things that most in IT cringe to think about but it is a necessary part of IT operations.…
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VMware
Troubleshooting Slow VMware Virtual Machine Power On Time
There comes times when you have a single ESXi host that you wish you didn’t! There are certain times when something that is simply for development or staging that supposedly isn’t production, but management may view it as production and…
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vSAN
What is HCI Bench VMware vSAN Performance Benchmark utility?
When it comes to benchmarking VMware vSAN, especially with vSphere 6.5 update 1 and higher, there is really one standard tool that is utilized to benchmark proof of concept environments. The HCI Bench utility is the “gold standard” if you…
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vSAN
Update VMware vSAN Witness Appliance
I noted a warning on my home lab VMware vSAN environment noting a missing critical patch with vSAN and deduplication environments. The patch was referencing the VMware KB article for all-flash clusters with deduplication enabled. This fit my environment in…
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VMware
Roll Back VMware Meltdown and Spectre Microcode Patch
Update 1.24.2018 with William Lam PowerCLI code link The last several days have certainly been a rollercoaster ride for VMware administrators and others who have been keeping a close eye on the latest news related to Meltdown and Spectre. There…
